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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at Watkins and there are still plenty of families from his Peabody days in the fourth grade with him. I volunteer regularly in the classroom, and I’d say it’s like many other schools with a large student body— some kids are doing exceptionally well, others struggle to learn. The good thing is that there still is a large enough group of kids that can push each other academically even in the fourth grade, so it’s not as dire as some of these others posters want to make it seem.[/quote]

the usual s@#* stirring from charter stans who want to recruit insecure affluent families away from their neighborhood schools and into charters that benefit from more affluent families.

am I missing anything here?[/quote]

I'm the one who posted that and you couldn't be more wrong. But with Watkins (and other DCPS schools with low in-boundary percentages) what I see is DCPS essentially offering their own version of a charter school -- it's not serving neighborhood students. Why? If we really think that even the lowest performing neighborhood schools can do better with more funding, then why not close DCPS charter-like schools that aren't serving the neighborhood, and redirect that money to the neighborhood schools that people think aren't funded well enough?

There's no reason for Watkins to exist when there's plenty of room to serve in-bounds kids in that neighborhood at the other Capitol Hill elementary schools.[/quote]

Ludlow Taylor is 40% out of bounds, including virtually [b]100% inbound PK3 and 4 which Watkins doesnt have. [/b] Even overcrowded Bent has 30% out of bounds students with the same ECE qualifier.

What is it about Watkins and the persistent trolls here?  I have a few theories but DCUM is already such an ugly space.[/quote]

Huh?  Peabody is Watkins' ECE program.  A really high percentage of Peabody students are in-boundary.   [/quote]

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